Re:Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development
by lightgreen on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:29AM
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Learning vim is 1% of skills at most. If these people can’t really afford to learn vim, how can they can learn I don’t know, React or Django.
(I think Vim is employable: being able to quickly edit a file in any Unix-like environment is very helpful. But that’s off topic.)
Anyway, if nano is not good enough there are hundreds of other decent editors available. My point is: “VS Code is good because vim is hard” is a very weak argument. VS Code is good, no doubt. But if it a teacher forces students to use Vim, and students have problems with Vim, then the problem is not in lack of VS Code.
(I think Vim is employable: being able to quickly edit a file in any Unix-like environment is very helpful. But that’s off topic.)
Anyway, if nano is not good enough there are hundreds of other decent editors available. My point is: “VS Code is good because vim is hard” is a very weak argument. VS Code is good, no doubt. But if it a teacher forces students to use Vim, and students have problems with Vim, then the problem is not in lack of VS Code.